So I’ve come across this piece of news where a so called „Arbys foundation“ payed 1000000$ to schools so that they can pay off their student‘s debts.
Now what I am wondering about, what does that mean exactly? Because what the article implies is that children are being indebted for free school lunches, which seems to lack a lot of nuance and would be illegal if it was true.
Does it simply mean that the schools themselves have to come up to pay, or is it a matter of the city government?
PS: I am German therefore I may have screwed up with the grammar and possibly the vocabulary too.
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US schools usually charge per meal, and will usually let students run a negative balance rather than denying meals if a student can’t pay that particular day.
A decade or so ago, my high school charged $2 for a lunch and a little under a dollar for breakfast.
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